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Scissor
Definitions
- 1 Attributive form of scissors. attributive, form-of
"I had clipped out the photo, feeling pathetic about the act from the moment I slipped my thumb into the scissor hole."
- 2 One blade on a pair of scissors. rare
- 3 Scissors. India
- 4 Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack.
- 1 To cut using, or as if using, scissors. transitive
"[…] let me know, Why mine owne Barber is unblest, with him My poore Chinne too, for tis not Cizard iust To such a Favorites glasse […]"
- 2 cut with or as if with scissors wordnet
- 3 To excise or expunge something from a text. transitive
"The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record."
- 4 To reproduce (text) as an excerpt, copy. obsolete, transitive
"1832, Review of The Etymological Encyclopœdia by D. J. Browne, The New-England Magazine, Volume 3, September, 1832, p. 256, The public are no longer excluded from the beauties of Science, if there is any virtue in 257 pages of etymology, scissored from “the best authorities.”"
- 5 To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. intransitive, transitive
"The runner scissored over the hurdles."
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- 6 To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other. intransitive
- 7 To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
Etymology
From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).
From Middle English cysour, cysoure, cysowre, altered from sisours (“scissors”), from Old French cisoires, cisours, cisur, from Latin caedere (“to cut”); current spelling influenced by Latin scindere, scissus (“to split”).
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